Drug Bust Cancels British Airways Transatlantic Flight

Good stuff Mexican officials.

I suppose it will be hard to remember to follow up here, but I will eventually wonder how would a cabin crew be involved with this, and what the evidence shows. From the video it looked like a pallet full of bricks -- that has to involve baggage handlers or a team underneath the plane, right?

BA crew check luggage under the aircraft on long haul

Dugs? Proofreading pls.

Also, "member involving" perhaps better as "involved."

I imagine we’ll find out soon enough. Nothing in local news outlets which is odd. What’s crazier is that on 4/11 there were two SEPARATE stories about busts at CUN. 4kg of fent and 150kg of coke. Wild.

@Lucky: Last time I flew out of CUN, I noticed that both when an arriving plane is unloaded and a departing one is loaded, the ramp workers always pat each other down before and after the job.

I'm afraid to think how this stuff could even go there. No screening in CUN? If it had been something else? And who was awaiting tht stuff in London, ready to bring it out? No screening in LON?

These schemes are often inside jobs, with the participation of crooked baggage handlers and corrupt border/customs officers.

It’s now being reported that a second BA aircraft has been involved in a drugs incident after an engineer found a brick of cocaine in the lavatory at LGW onboard a flight from MCO.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/34447247/cocaine-british-airways-plane-toilet/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/britishairways

Is it common to have customs screening on the outbound? I was under impression that departing baggage normally only does security screening.

As for arrival, if it's a pax/crew bag, it would take a lot of coincidence to have it screened. I only had one customs check on (air) arrival anywhere in Europe in the last decade, and that was when I was having three bags, and even then it didn't lead to a screening, they let me go after asking a couple of questions and concluding I'm not likely to be smuggling anything.

Drug trade is normally dealt with through intelligence means, brute force checks are too impractical and inefficient.

But how does it get to the destination if it's left under the aircraft?

Would that be eligible for eu261 comp?

Cancun is a changing place. Visited again last year as my partner is an Egyptologist and plenty to work on there.
We heard they wish to make it like a Las Vegas. It was said that gambling would be coming soon.
Surprised the plane is bringing coke from the UK to Cancun, thought it would be the other way around.
We observed large groups of prostitutes from the USA coming to Cancun and Tulum (further south on the penisula).
We observed large groups of American young men picking up these women in the lobby.
Not sure how it will turn out, ie; recent American couple from Michigan spent a month in Cancun jail upon arrival. Lucky for them Trump got them released.

No.

1. What plenty of work does an Egyptologist have in Cancun?
2. It is unknown where the coke was loaded up into the plane.
3. Prostitution is legal in Mexico under federal law.
4. Where did you observe large groups of prostitutes coming to Cancun/Tulum? How do you know they were prostitutes?
5. The American couple from Michigan was going through a judicial process in Mexico as they had been charged with fraud; compare that to the man who was living in Maryland wrongly deported to El Salvador and what Trump is doing